In conversation with the writer Bernhard Setzwein and the actress Markéta Richterová, the event explores the questions of how we can still encounter the famous, much-interpreted writer from Prague today, how he still enriches and influences German-speaking and Czech-speaking culture and how his life as a German-speaking Jew and artist in 20th century Central Europe would have developed if he had not died so young.
In his latest novel „Kafka's Journey through the Humpbacked World“ (Lichtung Verlag, March 2024), author Bernhard Setzwein imagines an alternative reality where Franz Kafka did not die at the age of 40. Instead, he has gone into hiding and given up his unsuccessful writing career to work at the Apollo cinema in Merano. Setzwein thus presents a fast-paced, amusing Kafka novel that resurrects the famous writer in the truest sense of the word – and manages to reawaken a desire for Franz Kafka's works and interest in his life.
The actress and author Markéta Richterová, who grew up in Vienna and now lives in Prague, already explored Franz Kafka in the play „K.'s Women“ in Vienna in 2016. As a member of the Prague performance cabaret „Das Thema - To téma“, she is now taking on the challenge of examining Franz Kafka in a completely different way. With the performative, bilingual cabaret „Kafka has left the building“, the actors follow their own personal path through fragments and facts from Kafka's texts, letters, diaries and life in the treacherous labyrinth of clichés and all possible interpretations. With lightness and humor, they reopen access to one of the most important European authors, only to then lead the audience to reflect on their own view of Kafka and his work with an abrupt seriousness that makes them laugh.
Admission as part of the Leipzig Book Fair
An event organized by the Adalbert Stifter Association - Cultural Institute for the Czech Lands in cooperation with the German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe and the Cultural Department for the Czech Lands at the Adalbert Stifter Association.
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